All right. I have a Staggering Number of powerpoint slides for this. Get your bets down now on whether i can get through them or not. I will even omit my customary lame professor humor, about the ncaa tournament, for example. Thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute, though, about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the postrevolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transformative happened to music in the 1960s. Weve worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave it, though, just as a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with then, though, is this sense of pervasive disappointment, that the revolution somehow ended in the early 1970s. The popular music became a disappointment, aesthetically, politically. Thats the cliche. We saw plenty of evidence for it. What weve been trying
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It will blow your mind about surely kornfeld. Shes the star in my family, not me. Reporter today, you are the star. Artie i am just a representative of a dream. Reporter Capitol Records was a new concept and you took a commanding position. How did that come about . Who just good friend sold his stock in martha stewart, chairman of the board we metrds for 15 years, if you read my book, we met at Queens College night school and he had just taken over the job working for Donnie Kershner from evans kershner music. I had already had a record out when i was 16. I was signed when i was 16 so i had a record out, and it died and nothing else happened. I ran into charles and you read the book, youll crack up the story is hysterical how it all happened. On withnext day i go the demo i made and i play it for Donnie Kershner and they sign me here i am signed to brian dauphin king, wilson, jan barry, great writers. There i was. It was so simple. You wrote a song and you played it for Donnie Kershner